Get Your Premium Membership

Lyre Poems - Poems about Lyre

The Fudge
abecedarian poem The fudge! The fudge! A mnemonic device some good acronyms to remember for the clefs Early: Gregarious:Blissfull Days Fatuous Equivocate Garrulous Bouis Dampen Fervor Egotistical Gaffe Balafon De-esser Fortissimo abstract or impersonal information Vandoren spoke the reed-member. The fudge: the fudge 'The fudge! Lady what are you talking about: I hunger; in deeds I do! egg;grits;bacon;Daikon: Fudge! The fudge! the Fudge The Fudge! Exotic:Gracful:Boxum:Devotion: Flirtatious These are...

Continue reading...
Categories: lyre, music,
Form: Ballad
Make ah Lyre outta them
Pedal Tones and arpeggios, and registers. "the act of separating the Two" The Twenty One Day Rule By Professor Meanus Labyrinth "Gabba Gabba Hey" Code name Project: " Fragaria x ananassa" Taint Whyle means to undermine a current relationship to bring it to null. or not any,...

Continue reading...
Categories: lyre, bridal shower, culture, engagement,
Form: Bio



The Lyre and The Flute
Epirus saw the needs of it's people through the eyes of there need. While on Mimaki the mounds of architecture were unveiled to a world wishing for modern sification . Turisotto meddled enough to evoke a sense of being a villaist, often due to the themes of control, power, and defiance to sway her feelings one might wish to be...

Continue reading...
Categories: lyre, analogy, conflict, extended metaphor,
Form: Ballad
Sappho Translations V
Sappho Translations V by Michael R. Burch Sappho, fragment 23 translation by Michael R. Burch I long helplessly for love. Gazing into your eyes not even Hermione compares. Who is your equal? I compare you only to goldenhaired Helen among mortal women. Know your love would free me from every care, and keep me awake nightlong beside dewy deltas. Sappho, fragment 78 translation by...

Continue reading...
Categories: lyre, beautiful, children, flower, longing,
Form: Free verse
Horae's Lyre
Making eternity out of a moment Escaping the pretense of time Beginnings and endings Falling away in one enduring rhyme Making eternity bend to my will An Angel comes to dance Wings on fire Horae's lyre The instant christened —another chance (The New Room: June, 2023)...

Continue reading...
Categories: lyre, time,
Form: Rhyme



Girl Playing Lyre
GIRL PLAYING LYRE - by Tadeusz Styka I'm a sweet girl, Playing my lyre, Music does whirl, Quenching heart fire, Hair flying free, Eyes lost in dream, Lyre defines me, Sad strains soft scream, Song of the lyre Calls out to you, Hands do inspire Melody blue, I look for you, As hands thrum tune, And implore you,...

Continue reading...
Categories: lyre, appreciation, art, music,
Form: Ekphrasis
Lyre In You
Lyre that you strum Melody in hum A tale, myth or a thrum?...

Continue reading...
Categories: lyre, life, song, voice,
Form: Questionku
Lyria the Lyre
I say to You, “I will do whatever Thou hast me do.” You reply, “Daughter, love, I ask you die.” And when I beg the reason why My heart bleeding Lord, You cry, “Eternity is yours!” To my tired sigh. “Fine,” I swear. “Let them tear out my hair and throw stones. You and I know nothing breaks these old bones.” Ever since that day, The pact...

Continue reading...
Categories: lyre, age, future, jesus,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Erato
Erato Each of the nine Muses Endeavor to inspire. Erato, lyre in hand, Engages with men's minds, Elegantly with words ... Each phoneme, each pattern Encourages lyrics....

Continue reading...
Categories: lyre, inspiration, muse, mythology, poetry,
Form: Pleiades
Sing, Lyre: Sappho Translation
Sappho, fragment 118 loose translation by Michael R. Burch Sing, my sacred tortoiseshell lyre; come, let my words accompany your voice. "Quoted by Hermogenes and Eustathius. Sappho is apparently addressing her lyre. The legend is that Hermes made the first lyre." The following are Sappho's poems for Attis or Atthis... Sappho, fragment 49 (Lobel-Page 49 / Voigt 49) loose translation/interpretation by Michael R....

Continue reading...
Categories: lyre, Lullaby, muse, music, song,
Form: Epigram
Love Query
Whisper you love me and I'll tell the whole world We can dance fantango The audience is the World So than it's time So than we do Shout it out You love me I'll send a shout out To you Say you'll marry me And wanna keep me Yours Cause there's a lot of Loving And places to explore So than we're lovers Let's find a place to Kiss When were old folks We can reminisce Talk about...

Continue reading...
Categories: lyre, kiss, love, music, song,
Form: Diamante
Love Query
Whisper you love me and I'll tell the whole world We can dance fantango The audience is the World So than it's time So than we do Shout it out You love me I'll send a shout out To you Say you'll marry me And wanna keep me Yours Cause there's a lot of Loving And places to explore So than we're lovers Let's find a place to Kiss When were old folks We can reminisce Talk about...

Continue reading...
Categories: lyre, kiss, love, music, song,
Form: Diamante
Music of the Lyre
If you say the music comes from the lyres, Why is there no music from the lyre in case? If you say the music is on the tips of fingers, Why can’t you enjoy music at your finger base? (Tran.)...

Continue reading...
Categories: lyre, philosophy,
Form: Quatrain
The Twilight Lyre
The sunset whispers get together in the bowl The electricity hands them over the momentum The oranges in the soul a bit out of control The golden darkness stirs the dormant venom My horizons crumble in the pink petals As you let all the birds fly into ... My balance the toxic touch unsettles In the inflamed heart beat just me and...

Continue reading...
Categories: lyre, beauty, desire, love, sunset,
Form: Rhyme
When a Liar Plays Lyre
when a liar plays lyre the ignorant rash to dance madly the wise think fast, first...

Continue reading...
Categories: lyre, satire, wisdom,
Form: Free verse

Related Poems


Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry